SUMS Synonyms: 180 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

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plural of sum

as in totals

a complete amount of something the sum of human knowledge on that subject

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as in summaries

a short statement of the main points the district attorney delivered a sum of the evidence against the accused that was simply staggering

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as in heights

the highest part or point he declared that he had reached the sum of joy when his newborn daughter was laid in his arms

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as in roots

the central part or aspect of something under consideration the sum of the issue is: who will pay for this?

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verb

present tense third-person singular of sum

as in adds

to combine (numbers) into a single sum can sum figures in his head faster than I can punch them into a calculator

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Recent Examples of sums

Noun

Turner then turned his attention to philanthropy, giving away huge amounts of his wealth to support global causes, including $1 billion to the United Nations Foundation and other sums to support the environment and nuclear non-proliferation. —

Greg Evans, Deadline, 6 May 2026 Lawmakers say these companies use predatory collection practices to charge veterans large sums for help claiming benefits with the Department of Veterans Affairs. —

Brittney Melton, NPR, 4 May 2026 With 20 horses running and all of America watching, massive sums of money are being bet in all directions. —

Kayla Hayempour, NBC news, 1 May 2026 Those groups, typically big-money independent expenditure committees, are legally barred from coordinating directly with campaigns, but can spend unlimited sums to influence elections. —

Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 1 May 2026 Friedman also owes smaller sums to art fairs including Frieze and Art Basel. —

Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 1 May 2026 Many of the technologies being used in the Enhanced Games are advents of extremely wealthy people spending enormous sums in strange clinics on therapies for themselves. —

Clara Molot, Vanity Fair, 30 Apr. 2026 It was originally developed by RV mogul Don Wallace, founder of Lazydays RV, who designed the residence as a showcase for a car collection that once included a Ferrari 250LM and a McLaren F1 LM—both of which fetched record sums at auction. —

Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 30 Apr. 2026 Griffin, of course, provided huge sums to defeat a progressive income tax before leaving. —

Chicago Tribune, 30 Apr. 2026

Verb

That sums to about $40 billion – far short of the $56 billion price tag for eBay. —

Tobias Burns, CNBC, 4 May 2026 Center’s Tamina Health Concept sums it up. —

Matt Emma, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026 Owner and hotel manager Andrea Scherz describes the look as mountain chic with a British touch, and that pretty much sums it up. —

Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Feb. 2026 Fennell's version of the book promises to lean into the madness and passion of Cathy and Heathcliffe's doomed love—and this quote kind of sums it up. —

Meg Walters, InStyle, 28 Jan. 2026 Parents sat down with Avatar star and Academy Award-winner, Zoe Saldaña, who sums the film up beautifully. —

Katie Grant, Parents, 16 Dec. 2025 Still, according to the investigative media outlet Mongabay, Petroperú has accumulated nearly $100 million in penalties for environmental damage across the country — sums the highly indebted state-company is not likely to be able to pay in the foreseeable future. —

Sabrina Weiss, The Dial, 23 Sep. 2025 Dobbins’ impact for the Broncos can be measured in several ways, but one stat maybe sums it up as well as any. —

Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 22 Sep. 2025 Spence’s post on social media after Spurs’ victory over Man City at the Etihad perfectly sums him up. —

Jay Harris, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025

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Every chat with Claude or GPT runs on the same underlying machinery that calculates spreadsheet totals and renders video games—silicon wafers etched with billions of microscopic switches, organized into specialized processors.

— Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 1 May 2026
East Bay job totals were virtually unchanged.

— George Avalos, Mercury News, 1 May 2026